[Haskell-beginners] Libzip for Haskell under Window

[Riaan]

Don't worry.  I found the problem.  After installing LibZip I needed to set
PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to /usr/local/lib/pkgconfib.

All good now, thank you for the help


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Riaan <info at rotnetix.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the advice - I got libzip compiled using MinGW but now I am
> struggling to get cabal to find it, it seems that pkg-config can't detect
> it.  I have it in the default locations: /usr/local/include and
> /usr/local/lib inside the MinGW shell.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <hjgtuyl at chello.nl>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:10:18 +0200, Riaan <info at rotnetix.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I have not been able to figure out how to get libzip [
>>> http://www.nih.at/libzip/**index.html<http://www.nih.at/libzip/index.html>]
>>> installed under windows so that cabal
>>> can install the package.
>>>
>>> I don't seem to be able to find a compiled binary anywhere.  Can anyone
>>> help?
>>>
>>
>> You will have to compile the C package yourself, using MinGW (see the
>> HaskellWiki page for Windows[0]). Start the MinGW shell with command 'sh'
>> and follow the instructions in the file INSTALL.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Henk-Jan van Tuyl
>>
>> [0] http://www.haskell.org/**haskellwiki/Windows#Tools_for_**compilation<http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Windows#Tools_for_compilation>
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